Oracle Blog

Friday Feb 25, 2011

Rough coupla weeks, here. Mostly for those of you who rely on our docs to do your jobs. But also for those of us who care about making your life a little easier.

This doesn't come close to solving the doc problem, but it's a small step in the right direction: The Back Page of OTN Systems (Sysadmin and Developer Community of OTN) re-creates the Collections of BigAdmin. If you need to find content related to, say, security, go to the Security Collection. It lists all security-related content we've published, whether in a blog, a technical article, or a web page.

Speaking of security, don't forget to keep an eye on our new Solaris Security forum, moderated by Alex Barclay.)

Unfortunately, our OTN Collections don't include the content we published previously on BigAdmin or SDN. That content as migrated to OTN, but we don't have the resources to go back and reorganize it by topic. (If you have a particular favorite, let me know, and I'll hunt it down.)

Regarding the docs, we're not going to be able to solve the entire problem right away. The docs team is working on improving Search, which may be the most helpful. I'll hunt down hidden docs and broken links when we hear about them, and a few of us may put together some online index cards to help you find the docs, too. I hope we can be a little more helpful in the coming weeks.

But don't forget that it's Friday, And sometimes you just gotta take your mind off your troubles.